The Evolution of a Garden Bed
Warning: long post. When we first started gardening here, in 2014, the initial intention was something along the lines of “food forest” and/or to grow as much edible stuff as possible. I still love doing that and always will (I think?) but the more I get into botany and climate-adapted plants and cool stuff from […]
June Vegetable Garden Update + Blackcaps
OMG where does the time go!? I’ve acquired a staggering number of new plants in the last month, and I’ve been working to get them all planted. And of course this is prime time for the vegetable garden and things are really going well. Here’s an update on some of that. I seeded carrots and […]
May Flowers
Just a stroll around the garden. My flowering plants have always been kind of spread out – not grouped together all that much, so when I go around and take pics of everything that’s flowering I’m always shocked! Let’s start with the Clematis. I think Grace and I agreed the other day that this could […]
Peppers, this year and last year.
Last year was a fantastic year for peppers and I think this year will be even better. I got almost all the plants I am going to grow into the ground yesterday: The one plant I overwintered went in as well. This is a sweet pepper called ‘Yum Yum Gold’ from Territorial Seed. It wasn’t my […]
April sprouts, blooms, buds, and a couple new plants
This is a post I started at the beginning of April and forgot to post. Mostly recordkeeping… That’s it for this very belated April update. Funny, everything’s different now, especially now that we’re having some actual HOT weather (80F right now at 2pm April 25). Excellent excuse for a new post!
Tomatoes in the ground!
Back on April 9th I put the hoop house up, and I let it sit around with nothing in it until yesterday, April 19th, when I set most of the tomatoes into it for the WHOLE day which is a crazy thing to do (sunburn! cripsy!) but these plants are so hard already they’ll be […]
Wednesday Vignette: New tree!
It looks flippin awful right now but just you wait. There’s so much going on here – hoop house is up with tomatoes NOT in it (what? I don’t know, I don’t work here), there’s fencing and other crap all over the place to keep birds and dog out of the garlic, there’s a big […]
A Visit to Little Prince
Finally I’m posting about our recent trip down to Little Prince of Oregon which happened back on March 18th. This post will end up being similar to Danger Garden’s post on the same trip, but hey, at least you’ll know that neither of us is making it up. Little Prince is a wholesale nursery that […]
April: Migration begins
Now that I’m seeing nighttime temperatures pretty reliably in the 40’s, I’ve been moving some tender plants outdoors gradually. First up is the lime (Citrus hystrix), who looks better than ever before coming out of winter indoors. Last fall it got a re-pot into a more free-draining mix, and, it’s been under an LED grow […]
Lettuce!
I probably sowed these seeds way earlier than I needed to, because look, they’re two months old and still babies. Whatever. They’re fully hardened off – they’ve been outside in their flat along with various alliums and I only brought them in one or two nights when it dipped well below freezing. Basically, I’ve been […]